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Reports to legislature.

Id s 3
Meetings.

Officers.

Compensation
of secretary

Travelling ex-
penses of mem-
bers

Id s 4.
Duties of
secretary

Salary

STATE BOARD OF HEALTH AND VACCINE AGENCY. [ART. 25.

of public hospitals, prisons, asylums, and other institutions, when
directed by the governor or the legislature, and shall at each regular
session of the legislature submit a full report of their acts, investi-
gations, and discoveries, with such suggestions as they may deem
proper.
3. The State board of health shall meet at least once in every
three months, and as much oftener as they may deem proper; their
first meeting shall he held within two weeks after their appointment
shall have been made, and three members shall always constitute a
quorum for business, they shall elect from their own number a
president and a permanent secretary, the latter of whom shall be
the executive officer of the board; no member of the board except
the secretary shall receive any compensation, but the actual travel-
ling expenses of the members, while so engaged in the duties of the
board, shall be allowed and paid out of the general fund.
4. The secretary shall perform and superintend the work pre-
scribed in this act, and such other duties as the board shall require;
he shall also furnish to the legislature, when in session, and to the
governor when required, such information, cognate to this act, as
from time to time they may deem necessary; an annual salary of
fifteen hundred dollars shall be paid to him in the same manner as
that of other State officers, and such necessary expenses as the
comptroller of the treasury shall audit on presentation of an item-
ized account, with vouchers and the certificate of the board, shall
be allowed him.

Id s 5
Expenses of
board

5. The expenses of the State board of health, including the salary
of the secretary, shall not exceed three thousand dollars a year.

VACCINE AGENCY

1872, c 257, s 1.
State vaccine
agency estab-
lished.

6. A State vaccine agency is hereby established; said agency to
be located in the city of Baltimore, in which place shall be kept, at
all times, a supply of fresh and pure vaccine virus, if practicable,
not more than four removes from the cow, for the use of the physi-
cians residing and practicing medicine and surgery in this State.

Id s 2
Appointment of
State vaccine
agent

7. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Sen-
ate, shall, once in six years, appoint as State vaccine agent, one
physician of good character and standing, whose duty it shall be to
keep on hand, and to procure as often as may be necessary, pure
vaccine virus, and to furnish such virus to the physicians of the
State gratuitously when called for. He shall keep a record of the
name and location of each physician so furnished with virus, together

Duties.

with the quantities, qualities', and number of times. He shall be re-
quired to advertise once a month in one or more of the newspapers
published in the city of Baltimore, and once during the year (three
insertions) in one paper of each county. He shall, for his services

Salary

as State vaccine agent, receive an annual salary of six hundred dol-
lars, and to defray the expenses incurred by him in procuring relia-